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I have been busy with firing pieces for several exhibitions since the weather broke. The obvara was pretty successful. I have been experimenting in the saggars using tiles as baffles to help hold combustibles in place. I am including two pieces of framed baffles because I find them so intriguing. the pots range from 8-12" in ht. I am using terra sig on the sagger pieces as well as on the smooth areas of the obvara pieces. I use ball clay TS so that it absorbs the obvara and the fuming in the saggars. I just added the poster for the Invitational show.
Marcia

Greetings all, I thought I throw this out there, we have a couple spots left in our Naked Finishes workshop. We will be doing foil saggars, paper saggars, pit fire and obvara over the course of two days. More information and registration is on our website. Hoping for good weather in April.(FYI its the middle of a blizzard currently)

shameful self-promotion
Alternative Firing Workshop in San Miguel de Allende Oct 8-12, 2018 with Marcia Selsor Program for Alternative Firing WorkshopsMy workshop on Alternative Firing will cover Ceramic Sagger Firings, Foil Sagger Firing and Obvara. During a five day course We make pieces for the three processes, make quick terra sig, burnish, bisque fire, make obvara brew, makeceramic saggers, and prepare pieces for firing.Below are examples of Obvara, ceramic sagger, and foil sagger pieces. for info, go to https://www.sanmigueldeallendeceramicworkshops.com/2018-wor…

This new format makes it difficult to create an album in my gallery. I can't even find my gallery. Anyone have suggestions?
I have made my photos small for this format. I can share the results of my workshop. I wish these could be put in my gallery for future reference. These are from my one week workshop at La Meridiana. Covered making crackled surfaces, obvara, foil sagger and ceramic sagger, making quick terra sig.
Marcia

In the Alternative Firing online workshop Marcia Selsor address Raku ( her famous horse tiles!), obvara, as well as and 2 ways to do saggar firing. She teaches these techniques from start to finish with lots of explanation. As an extra bonus she teaches the making of a small raku kiln. Early bird registration is open at http://teachinart.com/alternative-firing.html

For everybody interested in the last Potters Council visit to Tuscany in June 2014, and the Obvara workshop, held by Marcia Selsor: attached is my article in the New Ceramics magazine. Just published in the issue 1/15.
Enjoy!
Evelyne
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For everybody interested in the last Potters Council visit to Tuscany in June 2014, and the Obvara workshop, held by Marcia Selsor: attached is my article in the New Ceramics magazine. Just published in the issue 1/15.
Enjoy!
Evelyne

I just finished my preliminary peruse of the latest Pottery Making Magazine. The article by Marcia Selsor was an excellent introduction to the Obvara process. Excellent pictures of pots with close ups of textures. A nice, but brief historical background, and a summary of the process. Thanks for your contribution Marcia, great work!

Tomorrow Friday I will start the long expected Obvara-after-a-pit-fire. We discussed Obvara in a thread of Marcia's already, but now I will try to get a pit (and not a raku kiln) as hot as possible to be able to do Obvara. I started the witch's brew 2 days ago and, on the first day, I got a nice fermentation, 2nd day it was just a liquid mass, today I see fermentation again (lather), but the liquid was never warm (except when I started the brew with warm water).
Question: shouldn't a fermenting brew be at least luke warm? The fermentation is a chemical reaction isn't it? And that leads to warmth?!
I kept to the known recipe:
10 lt luke warm water
1 kg flour
2 packets of yeast (our packets here in Europe are 10 grams per packet - and yours in the State?)
1 tbl spoon of sugar (I took whitte sugar)
Any tips and tricks you can give about the pit fire getting hot enough for the Obvara firing are very welcome!
Thanks. Will keep you in the loop. Will go to bed now, it's almost 9 p.m. here. See you tomorrow.
Evelyne